Author: Russell Smith

Russell Smith specializes in the management and security of Microsoft-based IT systems. In addition to blogging about Windows and Active Directory for the Petri IT Knowledgebase, Russell is a Contributing Editor at CDW’s Biztech Magazine. Russell has more than 15 years of experience in IT, has written a book on Windows security, co-authored one for Microsoft’s Official Academic Course (MOAC) series and has delivered several courses for Pluralsight.

Now that the Windows 10 October 2018 Update has been rereleased after the initial rollout was paused in early October, here is a list of improvements Microsoft has made to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Windows 10 version 1809.

While Microsoft has finally re-released the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) since the rollout was paused early October, the company has been busy with version 5.0 of its Launcher software for Android phones, which now supports Windows 10 1803’s one new major feature, Timeline.